A recent sales study indicates that consumption of seafood dishes in Bay City restaurants
has increased by 30 percent during the past five years. Yet there are no currently operating
city restaurants whose specialty is seafood. Moreover, the majority of families in Bay City are
two-income families, and a nationwide study has shown that such families eat significantly
fewer home-cooked meals than they did a decade ago but at the same time express more
concern about healthful eating. Therefore, the new Captain Seafood restaurant that specializes
in seafood should be quite popular and profitable.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the
argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The author predicts that the new Captain Seafood restaurant that specializes in seafood should be extremely popular and profitable. The prediction is mainly based on that a nationwide study has shown that two-income families, which are pervasive in Bay City, eat significantly fewer home-cooked meals than they did a decade ago but at the same time express more concern about healthful eating. To strengthen the prediction, the author also mentions that the consumption of seafood dishes in Bay City restaurants has increased by 30 percent during the past five years. Nevertheless, some specific proofs should be provided to better evaluate this argument.
The author mentions a 30 percent increase in the consumption of seafood dishes in Bay City during the past five years and infers that the data illustrates that the seafood is quite popular among the residents living in Bay City. Nonetheless, this inference is vulnerable to counterarguments due to the lack of credence. In all likelihood, it is the rapid increase of population that resulted in the increasing consumption of seafood. Maybe other kind of food has a more dramatic increase in their consumption, which means that the sea food is likely to be the least popular food in Bay City. Besides, the reliability of the vague data is questionable. It is totally possible that even if the consumption experienced a 30 percent increase, it is still little on account of the poor former consumption. Hence, for lack of details concerning the base amount and the consumption of other kinds of food, we can hardly assess that 30 percentage is an obvious climb and represents the popularity of seafood.
The author also demonstrates a nationwide study which has shown that two-income families eat significantly fewer home-cooked meals than they did a decade ago but at the same time express more concern about healthful eating. Basing on the research, the author deduces that the pervasive two-income families in Bay City are in the same condition. However, the study, in itself, cannot sufficiently prove the validity of this argument. Can the research conducted in the whole country really represent the condition in Bay City? Not exactly. It is entirely probable that the standard of living in Bay city is far below than the average level in the country, which means that people here may choose to have meals at home frequently to save money. Additionally, even if people involved in the study express more concern about healthful eating, they may not actually eat healthily all the time. It is possible that they fail to resist the temptation of junk food, though they claimed that they they prefer healthy meals. Therefore, some specific proofs should be offered to reinforce the argument.
On the basis that seafood is actually popular in Bay City, it is still far-fetched to conclude that the new Captain Seafood restaurant that specializes in seafood will gain numerous profits. It is probable that the taste of the dishes in the new restaurant as well as the service provided there may be unsatisfying, which means that people may be reluctant to eat there. Besides, the profits is swayed by the revenue and expenditure, which means that the rent fee, the payment for workers and the spending of material should be taken into consideration. Consequently, the eventual profits may not be dramatic as expected. Some further evidence should be afforded to substantiate the conclusion.
Overall, although the conclusion might be true in some aspects, some specific proofs should be released to better evaluate the argument. In that case, the conclusion and the whole argument might be more reasoning and convincing.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 27 15
No. of Words: 600 350
No. of Characters: 3016 1500
No. of Different Words: 243 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.949 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.027 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.772 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 220 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 172 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 122 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 74 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.222 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.675 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.284 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.463 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.062 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 983, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: they
... of junk food, though they claimed that they they prefer healthy meals. Therefore, some s...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, consequently, hence, however, if, may, nevertheless, nonetheless, really, so, still, then, therefore, well, kind of, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 30.0 13.6137724551 220% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 44.0 28.8173652695 153% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 55.5748502994 130% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 16.3942115768 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3096.0 2260.96107784 137% => OK
No of words: 600.0 441.139720559 136% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.94923200384 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86861174322 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 255.0 204.123752495 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.425 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 948.6 705.55239521 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.2127363677 57.8364921388 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.076923077 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0769230769 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.03846153846 5.70786347227 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.243793170663 0.218282227539 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0700172076011 0.0743258471296 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.11498736669 0.0701772020484 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142022532429 0.128457276422 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108064078866 0.0628817314937 172% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 138.0 98.500998004 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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